The situation on the Syrian border is getting tenser; the Syrian air force shoots down an Israeli drone, and the Trump administration calls on Israel to restrict settlement construction.Read More

The Syrian army claims to have shot down an Israeli airplane, but Israel denies the claim; Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt visits Israel and the West Bank to learn about the Israel-Palestinian conflict; and an Israeli company is bought by a high-tech company for $15 billion dollars.Read More

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss developments in Syria; Yesh Atid, the Jewish Home Party, and Labor politicians are jostling for position in possible upcoming elections and the Israeli law banning boycott supporters is sharply criticized.Read More

Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to a range of criticisms from the authors of a governmental report on the Second Gaza War; the family of Elor Azaria appeals his sentence and Rabbinical students interrupt a Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall.Read More

Four new Israeli Supreme Court justices are selected, three are right wing and could change the composition of the court; Sergeant Elor Azaria is sentenced to 18 months in prison and Netanyahu visits Singapore and Australia.Read More

Prime Minister Netanyahu receives a warm welcome from President Trump in the White House; Israeli officials try to determine Trump’s beliefs about the two-state solution after his contradictory statements; the international community condemns an Israeli law that would annex Palestinian land, and Hamas selects Yahya Sinwar, an extremist who was freed in the Gilad Shalit deal, as its new leader.Read More

3,000 police officers evacuate the Amona settlement; a bill in the Israeli Knesset would legalize further settlements and approve land annexation; Donald Trump unexpectedly criticizes Israeli settlements shocking his right-wing Israeli supporters; Netanyahu is criticized for praising Trump’s plan to build a wall on the US-Mexican border and Netanyahu continues to be investigated for corruption.Read More

Details of Netanyahu’s corruption scandal continue leaking to the press; many politicians are jockeying for position in case Netanyahu resigns; Netanyahu has a warm conversation with President Trump and plans to visit Washington; Israeli settlers urge Netanyahu to annex portions of the West Bank now that Obama is out of office and a new Israeli governmental report on the second Gaza war criticizes the Israeli government’s readiness.Read More

January 20th Israeli politicians try to ascertain Trump’s policy towards Israel, and the scandal surrounding Netanyahu and the owner of Yedioth Ahronoth continues to grow.Read More

Four Israeli soldiers were killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem; Netanyahu’s relationship with Arnon Mozes, the owner of the newspaper Yediot Ahronot, is investigated after Netanyahu is accused of aiding the paper against Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom to receive favorable coverage, and Likud officials are trying to block a report about Operation Protective Edge from being released.Read More